We are available for stand-alone assignments or more strategic package development. Get the full lowdown.
STAND-ALONE ASSIGNMENTS
Sometimes all you need is that one perfect story. If you’ve got a single film, photo story, or other visual project idea, we’ll help you realize your vision. We work light and fast, and always with heart.
Morgan and her collaborators will work with you to plan your narrative, maximize time in the field and polish that award-awaiting, world-changing story.
PACKAGE DEALS
Ever know you need a story, but aren’t sure how to best put that story to use? We will work with you to strategically approach media projects to maximize their impact. That means we’re not just creating a single story, we’re the whole package.
We’ll work with you to develop a suite of outputs and an easy-to-follow plan to give your endeavors more lasting oomph.
Our Talents
WHAT WE OFFER
Part of what makes us unique is that we specialize in conservation. Yes, we have skills in photography and filmmaking, but we also come with science backgrounds, policy expertise and journalism skills. Every photographer, editor, writer and filmmaker partnering on Neon Raven stories comes with a similar knowledge base. They include Ph.D. scientists turned storytellers, career conservation journalists, and sometimes ecologists who are well, ecologists!
Meet some of them at the bottom of the page.
PHOTO STORIES
Crafting a story means knowing the kinds of photos you need to tell it. With backgrounds in environmental journalism and zoology, we’re as at ease photographing natural history as we are shooting the cultural, scientific and other human elements that make a more complete picture.
Once more, we know the importance of strong and accurate captions. A good photograph comes with context that may reveal what’s happening beyond the frame.
VIDEOGRAPHY & EDITING
With strong skillsets in pre-production, cinematography and editing, no conservation story is beyond reach. We are adept at working with sensitive subjects in countries all over the world from rural Thailand to the urban wild of Chicago.
Our kit is light and fast. It’s also polished. We don’t like to get bogged down with so much gear that moments pass us by, so we’ve curated a streamlined kit packed with muscle. Teams work in groups of two to four in the field..most of the time.
DISTRIBUTION & IMPACT
Stories are great, but it’s what you do with them that matters.
We work with you to develop suites of story packages for use across media platforms that include still and motion. We’ll help you envision and execute an array of outputs, such as exhibits, projections, as well as social media and more traditional publication needs. Once those stories come to life, pair them with custom crafted strategies for distribution and impact monitoring that’ll broaden your reach.
Speaking Engagements
The thing Mo like’s best, next to actually creating conservation stories, is talking about them, or how to make them.
Mo is available for a variety of speaking opportunities, whether it’s a keynote about women in wildlife photojournalism, or on specific issues such as a visual journey into the hidden impacts of trespass cannabis cultivation. She’s led everything from single presentations, trainings and multi-day symposiums around the world. Contact her for pricing.
- Conservation Storytelling – Oakland University (upcoming 2020)
- In defense of the Endangered Species Act – Capitol Hill (upcoming, Nov. 2019)
- Keynote – Shoot Like a Girl, Women in Wildlife Photography 2019
- Camera Trapping – WildSpeak West 2019
- Video Storyblend – North American Nature Photography Mini Summit 2019
- Conservation Storytelling – UC Davis 2019
- Invited Panelist Conservation Heroes – WildScreen 2019
- Video Storytelling – North American Nature Photography Summit
A Few Good Eggs
(AKA SOME OF NEON RAVEN’S TALENTED BUDDIES/PARTNERS)
Katie Schuler
Katie is one of the premiere rising talents in wildlife filmmaking. She just took top honors in Best Conservation Film and Best People and Nature Film at Jackson Wildlife Film Festival in 2019, and well on her way to being one of the most sought after talents in the industry. We are currently commiserating on multiple ideas, one of which involves a fly and a billionaire. Catch her stunning film, Pangolins, the world’s most trafficked animal.
Chris Steppig
Chris, a long time friend, is the workshop director for the Rich Clarkson Summit Workshops. Each year, I serve as faculty on multiple trips, including the annual Nature Photography Summit. We’ve also ventured with students deep into the Peruvian Amazon, and will be embarking into the wilds of Colombia in search of birds and other critters.
Jenny Nichols
Jenny and I have worked on multiple film collaborations over the years, most recently with mutual friend and colleague Krista Schlyer on Ay Mariposa. She is a dedicated conservation filmmaker with a beautiful eye for moments and the ability to connect with her subjects that makes you quickly fall in love.
Jayme Dittmar
Jayme is my other half on the filmmaking and editing crew of Deer 139. She is a super-athlete, an expedition dog musher and long distance runner, and incredible talent behind the camera. Her latest film Paving Tundra, about plans to build a road network through the Brooks Range as part of planned energy development, is sure to grab your attention.
Jaymi Heimbuch
Jaymi is a talented conservation photographer and teacher. We collaborate on her project, Urban Coyote Initiative, as well as partnering on multiple conservation storytelling workshops to foster future generations of conservation storytellers. Check out our latest collab, a workshop in Astoria with the Wildlife Center of the North Coast.
Clay Bolt
Clay is a dear friend and kindred spirit. We have worked together both while serving on the board of the North American Nature Photography Association as well as collaborating on his film about the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee, Ghost in the Making by Day’s Edge Productions. He is a tireless advocate and talented photographer of all the little things with wings.